File:Percival Lowell observing Venus from the Lowell Observatory in 1914.jpg
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| current | 13:44, 3 January 2017 | | 800 × 1,000 (650 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival_Lowell" class="extiw" title="w:Percival Lowell">Percival Lowell</a> observing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus" class="extiw" title="w:Venus">Venus</a> in the daytime from the observer's chair of the 24-inch (61 cm) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvan_Clark_%26_Sons" class="extiw" title="w:Alvan Clark & Sons">Alvan Clark & Sons</a> refracting telescope, installed in the summer of 1896 at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Observatory" class="extiw" title="w:Lowell Observatory">Lowell Observatory</a>, which he established in Flagstaff, Arizona (USA). Although known for observing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars" class="extiw" title="w:Mars">Mars</a>, this image has a long running attribution of <i>"Percival Lowell observing the planet Venus in the daytime"</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> something he did from 1896 onward, observing the planet high in the daytime sky with the telescope's lens stopped down to 3 inches in diameter. This image of an older Lowell was taken in 1914.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> |
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